{"id":339,"date":"2021-04-03T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:49:29","slug":"android-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/android-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An occasional distraction for me is writing Android applications.\u00a0 At present only one is available on the Google App Store: a Speaking Clock.\u00a0 I rather miss the original UK telephone speaking clock, but I&#8217;m too mean to pay 50p to hear it, so I wrote an app to emulate it.\u00a0 Click the player below for a sample.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_clock.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also added an alarm function that wakes you with the sound of the Speaking Clock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the unlikely event that you&#8217;d like to try it, search the Google App store for &#8220;Speaking Clock UK&#8221;, and look for my name and the clock face as in the screen shot below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It might be at <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.simongarrett.Speaking_Clock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.simongarrett.Speaking_Clock<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1-512x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" width=\"342\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1-512x1024.png 512w, https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1-150x300.png 150w, https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1-768x1536.png 768w, https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1-1024x2048.png 1024w, https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Speaking_Clock_Screenshot1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An occasional distraction for me is writing Android applications.\u00a0 At present only one is available on the Google App Store: a Speaking Clock.\u00a0 I rather miss the original UK telephone speaking clock, but I&#8217;m too mean to pay 50p to hear it, so I wrote an app to emulate it.\u00a0 Click the player below for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simongarrett.uk\/simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}